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Four years later, a group of women formed Stop Withholding Access Today (SWAT), launching a “SWAT the Fly” campaign after the club’s leader, Lisa J. Schkolnick ’88, filed a complaint against The Fly with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. The complaint was dismissed in 1990 when the commission failed to find jurisdictional justification to proceed. Then-President of the Fly Andrew M. Cameron ’91 told The Crimson following the verdict, “The issue of allowing women in is for the members to decide, undergraduates...
...feel like an assault. Each side has declared that the other will do anything to win, which means that if this race stays tight, whichever candidate loses is less likely to think that he was beaten than that he was robbed. Already the planes are fueled, the legal SWAT teams ready, the recount office spaces reserved and provisions made for staplers and coffeemakers in the event that Election Day does indeed become Election Month...
...this election than on any ever before. When lawyers, paid advisors, volunteers and outside organizations are totaled, both Bush and Kerry camps have election law representatives numbering in the thousands. According to Bob Bauer, counsel to the Democratic National Committee, these teams of election lawyers, referred to as SWAT teams, “will have done nothing but prepare through the fall.” Republicans have prepared by creating a network of lawyers in battleground states, and augmenting them with reinforcements. The Bush-Cheney campaign says it is targeting 30,000 precincts in 17 states that were the scene...
...even more alarming than these uber-present SWAT teams, is the lack of election reform in the post-Bush v. Gore era. In 2002, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act to give states money to upgrade equipment, develop computer registration lists, and provide guidance through the newly created Election Assistance Commission. The actual election commissioners, however, weren’t appointed until Dec. 2003, and there is a conspicuous lack of funding. Moreover, the technical voting problems of the Florida ballot still exist; an estimated 32 million voters in 19 states will use the ill-fated punch cards. Thus...
...even more alarming than these uber-present SWAT teams, is the lack of election reform in the post-Bush v. Gore era. In 2002, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act to give states money to upgrade equipment, develop computer registration lists, and provide guidance through the newly created Election Assistance Commission. The actual election commissioners, however, weren’t appointed until Dec. 2003, and there is a conspicuous lack of funding. Moreover, the technical voting problems of the Florida ballot still exist; an estimated 32 million voters in 19 states will use the ill-fated punch cards. Thus...